Wanna Play with Glass!

Wanna Play with Glass
Originally uploaded by nathanisms.

Who's up for an exciting game of break the glass, pick it up, dump it out, and repeat? Despite the fast pace growth in China there are still significant areas of poverty. Mostly the coastal cities are booming…with the exception of the one we call home, especially since corruption has a firm hold on the area. Don’t get me wrong there are several inland cities that prosper too. For example, Wuhan, Chongqing (where I studied in ’99), Chengdu, Xian, and Beijing, just to name a few. Even though some family’s income tops out at just over the equivalent of several hundred US dollars a year, they still make ends meet…barely. A resilient character has kept generations alive for millennia here in the land of what is now China.